Almost every time I hear someone describing the 'nightmare scenario' of living under socialism, they end up describing the current realities of modern day capitalism.
Yeah, they "collapsed" spontaneously because of communism/socialism. The monarchist militias and fascist death squads trained at the School of the Americas, funded by the State Department, and armed by the CIA had nothing to do with the "collapse."
No, Stalin was given contol of the red army to get a few of the Baltic states in line (yes, that means it never would have worked.) But, once Stalin was victorious, they said, "Wonderful comrade, now relinquish the power and we can truly be classless, stateless and godless!"
And Stalin says, "Crazy idea. How about I keep the power and we just be godless and classless.'
And as he still had control over the red army there was nothing they could do.
I tried that too recent, didn't work out well for me either. People don't seem to like the '/s', but I think it's pretty effective. Text make sarcasm hard to parse. And people do belive conflicting things and vote against their own best interests.
I don't like the /s when it's obvious sarcasm, because it hurts the humor to be told "that was a joke btw". But I also know it's necessary for all the people that won't get it.
After getting badly misinterpreted one time trying sarcasm on reddit, even after making a follow-up post to explain the sarcasm and then requiring a crystal-clean follow-up to the follow-up, I now make sure to put a /s on all sarcasm. Far too many people will just not catch it otherwise.
No. While people post dumb shit all the time, that comment can only be read as making fun of that type of person. If it was only the first two sentences, you might have a point. But, "Meanwhile I live in a state that has been run by republicans for 40 years." could not have made it any more clear.
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u/Enough_Photograph678 13h ago
this